There is a profound advantage but that advantage is asymmetric. American standards of living would drop to european levels or lower without our military and financial controls – which is why china(economic and political), iran(oil bourse), and russia(weaken nato) want to end it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 01:01:35 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975175349440077824
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@curtdoolittle Too simple a view imho. There is still a profound advantage in controlling / patrolling sea trade if its paid for by the shippers.
Also #CityOfLondon kept the high margin high leverage world reinsurance industry, most global sovereign trade.
US as non-unionized security guard.
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